That’s the hope of the AFL-CIO, which is using an interview given by the Washington Nationals’ slugger to make the case for the value of organized labor.

The MLB.com video, which features Harper praising his father as an ironworker, was distributed via email by the AFL-CIO’s media office with the following note:

“Where did Nats superstar Bryce Harper get his strong work ethic?” asks Josh Goldstein, who does media outreach for the AFL-CIO. “According to Bryce, it’s from his dad — a union ironworker. Check out this fantastic video from MLB.com.”

“If you want to understand me better, watch my pops tie rebar,” Harper says in the video. “My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard — I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself everyday.”